{"id":481464,"date":"2026-06-03T19:54:09","date_gmt":"2026-06-03T19:54:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/481464\/"},"modified":"2026-06-03T19:54:09","modified_gmt":"2026-06-03T19:54:09","slug":"lost-in-space-nasas-mars-probe-maven-declared-dead-after-months-of-silence-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/481464\/","title":{"rendered":"Lost in space: Nasa\u2019s Mars probe Maven declared dead after months of silence"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Nasa\u2019s Maven spacecraft has been declared dead after six months of radio silence.<\/p>\n<p>The space agency confirmed on Wednesday that the mission had ended after more than a decade of observations of Mars.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Launched in 2013 to study the red planet\u2019s atmosphere from orbit, Maven mysteriously fell silent in early December after passing behind Mars.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Data indicated the spacecraft went into a fast spin, which disrupted its orbit and drained the onboard batteries.<\/p>\n<p> <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/bc7f34769791464eb18f25ba28bba1c9.jpg\" title=\"Mars-Maven Spacecraft\" \/> Photos of Mars taken by Nasa\u2019s Maven spacecraft (Nasa\/AP)<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">A review board convened by Nasa earlier this year concluded the spacecraft is useless and unable to be recovered.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">An investigation continues into what caused the problem.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Besides studying Martian weather and observing a stray interstellar comet last year, Maven helped relay information from Nasa\u2019s Curiosity and Perseverance rovers on the surface.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Maven\u2019s lead scientist, Shannon Curry of the University of Colorado Boulder, said the spacecraft made a number of \u201camazing discoveries\u201d.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Maven \u201chas truly advanced our understanding of the Martian atmosphere and evolution\u201d, she said in a statement.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Nasa\u2019s Maven spacecraft has been declared dead after six months of radio silence. The space agency confirmed on&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":481465,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[61,1042,60,1094,82,386],"class_list":["post-481464","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-science","tag-ie","tag-international","tag-ireland","tag-report","tag-science","tag-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/481464","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=481464"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/481464\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/481465"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=481464"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=481464"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=481464"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}